A truck driver who refused to obey the gendarmes on the highway near Montauban was killed on Friday after a gendarme shot him and his truck caught fire, the prosecution said.
“He refused to comply following a road check, he fled, hit a gendarmerie vehicle in which was a gendarme. A gendarme used his weapon, the driver was hit and the truck caught fire. The autopsy will determine the causes of his death, “added the prosecution.
The driver, aged about 35, then lost control of his vehicle, near the Montauban-Sud tollbooth, and “the truck caught fire. The gendarmes brought him first aid but he died. The autopsy will determine the causes of his death, ”the same source added.
The firefighters and the Samu also tried to resuscitate him, according to the firefighters, who then extinguished the flames that had spread in the brush near the truck.
The investigation will try to determine why this driver, who would transport packages, refused to obey the gendarmes.
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